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I'm going to let the "Philippine Maoists Arrest Warlord" thread die out & just start this thread, in which I'll try & keep updated as much as I can on the armed struggle taking place in the Philippines by the NPA. All the articles in the last thread will be re-published here.
NPA arrests Arroyo warlord in Surigao, 4 AFP/PNP armed escorts; Confiscates Nine M-16 rifles, pistols
May 5, 2010
Arroyo warlord and Lingig, Surigao del Sur town mayor Roberto "Jimmy" Luna Jr. and his AFP/PNP bodyguards were arrested earlier today, May 5, at 6:15 AM at a mobile checkpoint mounted by Red fighters along the Davao-Agusan National Highway in Pasian, Monkayo, Compostela Valley Province. Red fighters under the Conrado Heredia Command-Front 20 Operations Command of the New People's Army also confiscated their firearms consisting of five M-16 armalite rifles, two .45 cal. pistols, one 9 mm pistol and one .380 cal. pistol.
Luna, a last term mayor under Gloria Arroyo's Lakas-Kampi Party, is being held for investigations for numerous criminal, land grabbing and graft cases lodged before the local People's Court. Luna is being investigated for the 2007 murders of Suazo siblings who are Barangay Union residents in Lingig town; and Luna's involvement in the cold-blooded murder of Mayor Amerosin V. Onsing in 2001. Luna has also been accused of land grabbing 30-hectare peasant lands in Barangay Pagbacatan, and in Dahican Island.
Luna who is now seeking the Lingig town vice mayoralty post has been facing graft charges for the 26-million peso Land Bank loan for water ways in 2009. He has pending cases in reactionary courts for illegal logging, falsification of official documents, grave misconduct, and graft and corruption.
Luna and his AFP/PNP armed escorts -- 58th IB-AFP PFC John Rey Abao (SN 831893), PFC Arnel Dizon (SN 859544), PNP Lingig PO2 Boy de Castro and PO3 Alan Dapitanon -- are now under NPA custody while investigations are ongoing.
The NPA shall issue further statements and notices related to this latest incident.
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/...00505;lang=eng
Last edited by The Vegan Marxist; 13th May 2010 at 03:42. Reason: Referred to change thread name
Here is also a document on the various corrupted doings taking place & the oppositional voices against such corruption: http://www.philippinerevolution.net/...ib/0805-08.pdf
NPA rebels attack troops guarding poll machines in South
Friday, May 07, 2010
DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / May 7, 2010) – Communist insurgents on Friday opened fire on government troops guarding polling machines in the southern Philippines, wounding two infantrymen, officials said.
Officials said New People’s Army insurgents attacked the soldiers in the village of Taguibo in Davao Oriental’s Mati town where security forces were guarding the precinct count optical scan machines which will be used in the country’s first automated elections on Monday.
“The two wounded soldiers were rushed to hospital,” said Captain Emmanuel Garcia, a spokesman for the Army’s 10th Infantry Division.
Garcia said troops were pursuing the attackers. “This is another terror act of the Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People’s Army and the National Democratic Front. They are sowing terror to prevent people from freely exercising their right to vote. This is hooliganism at its worst.
While soldiers are sacrificing to safeguard the election process, these terrorists breed anarchy to the detriment of the Filipino people,” he said.
On Thursday, insurgents also bombed a truck of troops escorting a convoy delivering precinct count optical scanner machines in Palanas town in Masbate province in the Bicol region, although no was injured or killed in the roadside attack.
The NPA is the military wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines while the National Democratic Front is the organization’s political arm. The Communist Party of the Philippines is fighting for decades for the establishment of a Maoist state in the country. (Mindanao Examiner)
http://www.mindanaoexaminer.com/news...20100507011255
The facts against psywar intrigues
Prof. Jose Ma. Sison
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Chief Political Consultant
May 7, 2010
As chief political consultant of the Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), I am well informed about the revolutionary position of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the New People's Army and the NDFP as well as the position of other major political forces in relation to the 2010 elections of the reactionary government.
It is the consistent revolutionary position of the CPP, NPA and NDFP, as well expressed in the recent CPP and NPA anniversary statements, that the 2010 elections are on the whole and in essence a rotten process of a rotten ruling system dominated by the political agents of US imperialism and the local exploiting classes.
The NDFP Negotiating Panel has recently received word from the revolutionary forces of the CPP, NPA and NDFP that they are exceedingly happy that the necessity and objective conditions for waging revolution are further enhanced by the fact that the 2010 elections are manifesting the worst characteristics of the semicolonial and semifeudal system and are generating further political disorder and social turmoil.
They are amused that the poll surveys and the media reports have made an unstable, slothful and massacre-prone underachiever like Noynoy Aquino and a convicted plunderer and ruffian-type like Erap Estrada as the front runners in the presidential derby and that the Arroyo regime is still desperately maneuvering either to stay in power through failure of elections or choose the next president through manipulation of the vote count.
By manipulating the vote count through automation and/or manual count, the Arroyo regime can install as the next president either its own bet Gibo Teodoro or Noynoy Aquino who is the favorite choice of the the US country team (including the US ambassador, political officer and the mission chiefs of the AID, CIA , DIA and JUSMAG) and the Makati Business Club. One more bad president will further damn the ruling system and further incite the people to wage armed revolution.
Regarding such patriotic and progressive forces as Makabayan and some party list groups, everyone knows that the CPP, NPA and NDFP regard them as independent legal forces striving heroically to carry forward the national and democratic rights and interests of the Filipino people through the electoral form of struggle. The revolutionary forces and the broad masses of the people appreciate them as exceptional and different from the traditional politicians of the ruling system.
As a matter of public knowledge, I am aware that the bilateral alliance between Makabayan and the Nacionalista Party continues on the basis of the platform of land reform and rural development, industrial development and job generation, respect for human rights, indemnification of victims of human rights violations under the Marcos regime, protection of the environment, negotiations for a just peace, review of the Visiting Forces Agreement and other unequal agreements and independent foreign policy.
Brigadier General Francisco Cruz, chief of the AFP civil relations service, and retired police general Rodolfo Boogie Mendoza are spreading psywar intrigues and telling lies whenever they and their political masters invent stories to put the revolutionary forces at odds with the legal progressive forces and to counterpoise the central leadership of the revolutionary forces against a mere political refugee and long-disemployed teacher like me. In the days to come, the counterrevolutionary propagandists are expected to spew out more intrigues and lies calculated to favor certain parties and candidates and attack others.
I assure the two psywar intriguers and their political masters that I have the highest respect for the central leadership of the CPP, the national command of the NPA and the national council of the NDFP, which are all based in the Philippines. It is known to the public that I enjoy the trust and confidence of the revolutionary forces. They continue to let me serve the Filipino people as the chief political consultant of the NDFP in peace negotiations with the reactionary Manila government.
The broad masses of the Filipino people condemn the attempts of the most reactionary politicians and their military minions to discredit the Makabayan and progressive party list groups by Red-baiting them and witch hunting them as communists and self-contradictorily maligning them as being unprincipled for engaging in alliance tactics. These united front tactics allow them to retain their integrity, independence and initiative as patriotic and progressive forces and to facilitate and amplify their access to the people in their millions.
The anti-communist propaganda is calculated to pave the way for cheating the progressive forces and their allies and cutting down their votes. The impending electoral fraud at their expense will only further discredit the ruling system and will further justify the people's determination to intensify the revolutionary armed struggle. Definitely, the 2010 elections cannot be a way for any significant beneficial change. They are a device of the ruling system for deceiving the people and suppressing their will and voice.
The CPP, NPA and NDFP have always openly expressed their contempt for the entire ruling system of big compradors and landlords and their resolve to carry forward the people's war for national liberation and democracy. They are confident that the ever worsening crisis will continue to afflict the ruling system. The crisis will put the next president in serious trouble and compel him either to negotiate peace with the revolutionary forces or escalate the armed counterrevolution in a monstrous and self-defeating way.
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/...00507;lang=eng
People Demand the Dismantling of Lingig Mayor's Private Army
Simon Santiago
Regional Political Department
Merardo Arce Command
NPA-Southern Mindanao
May 8, 2010
Arrested warlord Roberto 'Jimmy' Luna Jr (Lakas-Kampi) has strengthened his private army, and armed them with large caches of firearms issued by the Department of National Defense of the US-Arroyo Regime. Within nine years as mayor of Lingig, Surigao del Sur, Luna, a Gloria Arroyo ally, has maintained at least a platoon of private army which he used mainly to hit civilians and political opponents for his ambitious interests.
Ongoing investigations on the arrested Mayor has further affirmed the numerous complaints against him ranging from murder, land grabbing, graft cases to illegal logging and his involvement in the drug trade. Luna was arrested May 5 in the Davao-Agusan National Highway in Pasian, Monkayo, Compostela Valley Province during a mobile check point mounted by the Conrado Heredia Command-Front 20 Operations Command-NPA to arrest Luna.
Luna has used his armed goons to implement the murder of Suazo siblings in Barangay Union, Lingig in 2007, kill his political opponent Mayor Amerosin V. Onsing in 2001; and go after the Red fighters in an armed incident in 2001. Upon his orders, his private army also sowed terror among civilians in Barangay Pagbacatan and in Dahican Island where Luna's interests in agri-business and tourism lie. Luna has land grabbed at least 30 hectares of peasant lands in Barangay Pagbacatan.
In February 2006, following numerous complaints docketed with the Hukumang Bayan (People's Court) of the People's Democratic Government, the NPA made attempts to dismantle Mayor Luna's private army by raiding his house and disarming his Philippine National Police headquarters which garnered at least 22 firearms. But the Mayor has remained deaf to the people's clamor and continued to sow terror among the populace.
Warlord Luna has found a gracious ally in Gloria Arroyo who protected and coddled warlordism in the country and the proliferation of private armies via Arroyo's Executive Order 546 strengthening the regime's local officials to become warlords. The same Arroyo order that bred cold-blooded murderers like the Ampatuan clan in Maguindanao that use its private armies and DND-issued firearms to kill and maim civilians, build their vast empire, stifle the people's discontent and get away with anything -- even the most heinous crimes.
The regime merely pay lip service to dismantle private armies following the widely condemned November 23 Ampatuan Massacre. Warlords and private armies have actually continue to proliferate and enjoy the protection of the Arroyo regime.
The New People's Army for its part has remained firm in its commitment to disband private armies and all forms of warlordism inimical to the people's interests. The arrest and investigation of Mayor Luna is part of this commitment to hold accountable all those found guilty and face the legal and judicial processes as stipulated in the People's Court.
Meanwhile, Mayor Luna has remained safe and sound in the custody of the New People's Army and is being accorded humane treatment as has been the practice of the NPA towards all its captives.
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/...00508;lang=eng
NPA to 10th ID-AFP's Capt. Garcia: What PCOS machines are you talking about?
Simon Santiago
Regional Political Department
Merardo Arce Command
NPA-Southern Mindanao
May 9, 2010
The May 7 military action of the NPA's Wilfredo Zapanta Command-Front 18 Operations Command (Wizac-NPA) is a punishment against the abusive 28th IB-AFP troops and a response to the complaints of the masses. The 28th IB-AFP casualties were not delivering Comelec PCOS machines as 10th ID-AFP spokesman Capt. Emmanuel Garcia claims. The NPA, as a matter of policy and as track record shows, fully respects the people's will in the guerilla base areas especially during this most chaotic election period.
At around 8 am that day, a team of Red fighters under the Wizac-NPA hit a unit of the 28th IB-AFP RSOT (Reengineered Special Operations Team) in Brgy. Taguibo, Mati, Davao Oriental. The ambushed enemy section was on reconnaissance patrol. They were the security elements of the 28th IB RSOT who have been conducting a month-long psychological warfare operations in Brgy. Taguibo and were not delivering Comelec PCOS machines. Private John Glenn J. Aniasco was killed while Privates First Class Abdulgani Paguildan and Julieto Domingo were wounded in the May 7 NPA ambush.
Capt. Garcia is a pathetic liar, more so, when it comes to making excuses for the 10th ID-AFP's battlefield losses. He now pegs his lies on the GRP election chaos to sell. Capt. Garcia's own yarn is a poor copy of the lies also peddled by AFP spokespersons in reaction to NPA tactical offensives in other regions. It only succeeded in unmasking him as someone who underestimates the people's sense to discern the truth from falsehood.
Capt. Garcia is covering up the gross violations of the 28th IB-AFP RSOT of the war protocols. For already a month, the Alpha Coy of the 28th IB RSOT have established an encampment within the populated civilian community in Taguibo. The fascists made the civilian population of Brgy. Taguibo virtually their shields against perceived NPA attacks. They have turned the barangay public school building into a military barracks -- and into brothels. The NPA has received reports of incidents of sexual harassment and molestation against women residents done by the soldiers of the 28th IB-AFP. Some of these cases were docketed before the local People's Court, and is presently undergoing investigations. These are some incidents that Capt. Garcia wants to keep under wraps from the public.
As a 10th ID spokesperson is paid to do the spin job, it is not surprising for Capt. Garcia to quickly conjure the lie that the NPA sought to thwart the delivery of the PCOS machines. He has to get creative and make a perfect excuse for the dismal failure of the 28th IB-AFP's RSOT operations in Taguibo, and their entire operations in Davao Oriental. Onto the homestretch of the doomed counter-revolutionary Oplan Bantay Laya, all they gained was widespread demoralization among their ranks, further alienation from the masses and the failure of the US-Arroyo regime in stemming the tide of the armed revolutionary movement.
A word of unsolicited advise to Capt. Garcia: be more original with your lies or you may lose your pathetic job.
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/...00509;lang=eng
05/09/2010 | 11:20 AM
Army readies armed option vs Luna’s NPA captors
Soldiers of the Philippine Army’s 401st Infantry Brigade and the 10th Infantry Battalion from Compostela Valley are forming a circle against the NPA rebels and their captives somewhere between Compostela Valley and Surigao del Sur.
Should the negotiations for the release of Luna and his four security men fail, the military will act once it receives the order, Col. Augusto Tolentino, commanding officer of 401st IB, said in an interview.
“But of course, we will give time to the negotiating team for the safe release of Mayor Luna and his four security escorts before implementing military options", Tolentino said.
The military now knows where the NPA is hiding the kidnapped mayor and the security men, he said.
The NPA rebels holding Luna and his men have also raised the ransom money or "lodging fee" to P10 million from P2 million, according to Tolentino.
The rebels have sent feelers asking Tolentino to cease military operations in the area for the negotiations to proceed smoothly.
But Tolentino said he told the NPA to first release the kidnap victims before military troops will be pulled out of the area.
Luna and his men were on their way to Davao City near the boundary of Barangay Langkilaan, Trento, Agusan del Sur when they were captured by NPA rebels at about 6 a.m. on May 5. (See: NPA kidnaps Surigao mayor, 4 escorts—police)
A crisis committee, headed by Surigao del Sur Gov. Vicente Pimentel Jr., on Thursday tapped Agusan del Sur provincial social welfare officer Josefina Bajade as head negotiator in the talks with NPA rebels. (See: NPA holds Surigao gov’s convoy, seizes 7 firearms)
Bajade and the Agusan del Sur provincial government were responsible for the release of 75 hostages, including 17 schoolchildren, in Sitio Maitum, Barangay San Martin, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur on Dec. 9, 2010.
National Democratic Front-Northeastern Regional Command (NDF-NMRC) spokesperson Jorge Madlos, a.k.a. Ka Oris, said in a statement the NPA considers the four government security escorts as prisoners of war.
They are Private 1st Class John Rey Abao and PFC1 Arnel Dizon of the 58th IB, and Police Officer 2nd Class Jose de Castro and PO3 Allan Dapitanon of the Philippine National Police in Lingig.
Lt. Col. Gilbert Saret, the Army battalion now pursuing Luna's captors said that Pimentel and his team are now negotiating for the release of Luna his men.
Compostela Valley provincial police chief Sr. Supt. Aaron Aquino said the rebels and their captives already crossed the thickly forested mountain range separating Compostela Valley and Surigao del Sur, and that a possible release might happen on the Surigao side.
This was the second time NPA rebels abducted Luna. In 2007, NPA gunmen posing as government soldiers raided the Lingig police station, using Luna as a human shield while ransacking the station's weapons cache. He was released 12 hours later.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/190456/a...as-npa-captors
05/09/2010 | 12:43 AM
NPA holds Surigao gov’s convoy, seizes 7 firearms
BUTUAN CITY — Some 80 heavily-armed NPA rebels blocked and disarmed the three-vehicle convoy of Surigao del Sur Gov. Vicente Pimentel Jr. while on their way to Tandag City at past 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, a flash report from the Philippine Information Agency special election coverage office said.
Gov. Pimentel and his security escorts were on board a convoy of three vehicles—a Toyota Land Cruiser, a Nissan Patrol and a Toyota Hi-Lux—at the Hinatuan-Bislig City boundary road when the camouflage-uniformed suspects flagged them down at Sitio Tandawan, Barangay Loyola, the PIA report said.
Pimentel’s younger brother Johnny, confirmed the incident in a text message.
Pimentel’s vehicle was reportedly able to speed away, but the two other vehicles remained stuck at the NPA checkpoint, forcing the governor’s vehicle to turn back and rejoin the convoy.
The NPA rebels then disarmed Pimentel’s security personnel after a heated altercation that nearly led to a shootout.
Pimentel’s convoy was later allowed to proceed unharmed, minus their firearms. The NPA rebels reportedly seized four M16 rifles, an MP5 rifle, two .45-caliber pistols, and ammunition.
The governor’s party came from Lingig, Surigao del Sur, where Lingig Mayor Roberto Luna Jr. and his four security escorts were being held captive by the NPA in nearby Compostela Valley province.
The governor is head of the crisis committee on the Mayor Luna kidnapping, and was reportedly trying to hold talks with NPA unit holding Luna and his four escorts near the boundary of Surigao del Sur and Compostela Valley before the incident happened.
Pimentel is the regional chairman of the Caraga Region Peace and Order Committee and also an official of the Caraga Regional Development Council.
He is now on his third term as Surigao del Sur governor, and has been campaigning as Lakas-Kampi’s mayoral bet in Carrascal town.
Pimentel’s younger brother, Johnny, is Surigao del Sur provincial administrator, former vice governor, and now Lakas gubernatorial bet. Another Pimentel brother is reelectionist Tandag City Mayor Alexander Pimentel.
The Pimentel family reportedly owns one of the biggest mining companies and timber concession in Surigao del Sur.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/190446/n...zes-7-firearms
MILF, NPA blamed for election violence
05/11/2010
COTABATO CITY, Philippines—The military in Maguindanao on Tuesday linked the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to at least one incident of mortar shelling there while balloting was being conducted on Monday.
In Compostela Valley, New People's Army rebels were also being accused of staging an ambush that killed five people—two soldiers, two policemen and a poll watcher—on Tuesday.
Colonel Herbert Yambing, chief of the Joint Security Coordinating Council in Maguindanao, said MILF rebels fired the three mortar shells that landed near a voting center in Pagatin Elementary School in Salibo town at about noon on Monday.
No one was hurt in the incident but Yambing said the explosions sent voters and poll officials into panic.
"We know the MILF did it," Yambing said.
He said the incident was a violation of an agreement the MILF signed with the government in which the rebels agreed to help in maintaining a peaceful and orderly election in Maguindanao and other areas.
Ghadzali Jaafar, MILF vice chair for political affairs, branded Yambing's accusation as "hastily issued."
Jaafar said the incident should be investigated first.
He said that instead of directly accusing the MILF, Yambing could have waited for the results of an investigation which a neutral body like the International Monitoring Team could conduct.
"We are committed to help the government ensure the holding of peaceful and orderly elections in accordance with the commitment of understanding that we agreed upon," said Jaafar said.
He said that after the signing of the agreement, the MILF moved out its forces from areas near polling places so that misencounters would be avoided.
Brigadier General Ariel Bernardo, deputy commander of the Army's 6th Infantry Division and chair of Task Force HOPE (Honest, Orderly and Peaceful Elections), said Yambing's statement was already being looked into.
Meanwhile, Yambing said three more explosions rocked Maguindanao on Monday evening while votes were being counted.
But he said that this time, followers of losing candidates were behind the three rifle grenade explosions in three barangays in the municipality of S.K. Pendatun.
Another grenade, he said, was lobbed by unidentified men into a polling precinct in Datu Paglat town but it did not explode.
Voters and poll clerks inside the polling precinct at the time were thrown into panic, Yambing said.
He said followers of losing candidates could also be behind Monday's 7:30 p.m. ambush of poll officials and Army personnel from SK Pendatun town, who were transporting precinct count optical scanner (PCOS) machines to Shariff Aguak.
No one was reported injured in the ambush, Yambing said.
In Maragusan, Compostela Valley, Colonel Romeo Calizo, commander of the Army's 1001st Infantry Brigade, said a convoy of vehicles bearing government forces and election watchers were heading for the town's center to deliver election results when fired at by rebels in sitio Mangga in Barangay Mahayahay around 9:30 a.m.
Calizo said 9 soldiers and three other civilians were wounded in the attack.
"Pursuit operation is ongoing," he said.
http://politics.inquirer.net/politic...tion--violence
Keep in mind that every site that I'm getting information from, except the NPA's main site, is very anti-NPA & will lead to whatever propaganda against them as they can.
Communist rebels kill six in Compostela Valley ambush
12 May 2010
DAVAO: Communist rebels in the southern Philippines killed six people and wounded 12 others on Tuesday when they ambushed an election convoy, the military said.
Two soldiers, two government militiamen, an election official and the poll watcher of a local candidate were killed in the attack in the restive Mindanao region, said local military commander Col. Romeo Calizo.
Guerrillas of the New People’s Army (NPA) ambushed the group as they were delivering the results of Monday’s national elections to the town of Maaragusan, said Calizo.
Nine soldiers and three civilian poll watchers were also wounded in the ambush, the colonel said. He said the incident was probably an attack on government forces and not an attempt by the rebels to influence the polls.
“We condemn this attack on innocent people,” said Army Captain Emmanuel Garcia, a spokesman for the 10th Infantry Division, as he called on the Commission of Human Rights and other human rights organizations to investigate the attack which occurred at about 8.30 a.m. on a village near Maragusan town.
Garcia said rebels also attacked Friday and wounded two government troops guarding polling machines in the village of Taguibo in Davao Oriental’s Mati town. Security forces were guarding the machines when rebels opened fire at them.
http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php...-valley-ambush
NDF wants new admin to remove terror tag on NPA
05/12/2010 | 11:35 AM
Even before the incoming administration could formally be sworn in, communist rebels on Wednesday disclosed their first condition for the resumption of peace talks with the Philippine government.
In a radio interview, a National Democratic Front (NDF) spokesman said that while the mainstream communist group is open to talks with Sen. Benigno Simeon “Noynoy" Aquino III, it wants his administration to remove the terrorist tag on its armed wing first.
Aquino appears headed to winning the May 10 presidential polls as shown by his very string showing based on the partial and unofficial tally as of Tuesday.
"The NDF and Communist Party of the Philippines have always been open to peace talks. But we wish it would be on the level. The government claims it does not deal with terrorists. Yet it deems the CPP and New People’s Army terrorist groups. So it should work to remove the terrorist tag from these groups," NDF Mindanao spokesman Jorge “Ka Oris" Madlos said in Filipino over dzXL radio.
Madlos was referring to the Arroyo government’s representations in the early 2000s to have the United States and European Union tag the NPA as a terrorist group.
The terrorist tag on the NPA had been one of the key reasons behind the stalling of peace talks between the Arroyo government and the communist rebels in August 2004.
"Marami pang parameter ng peace talks na dapat ayusin. Ang NDF interesado ma-resolve ang root ng crisis ang social problem sa Pilipinas (There are many other parameters to the peace talks that must be addressed. The NDF wants to resolve the root of the crisis and the country’s social problems)," Madlos said.
On the other hand, Madlos warned the NPA is ready to "fight" against the new government if it refuses to address the social problems hounding the country.
"Handa rin kami lumaban kung sakaling walang kasiguruhan makamit ng mamamayan ang tunay na para sa kanila (We are ready to fight if we see no certainty that the people will get what they deserve)," he said.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/190762/n...ror-tag-on-npa
This just shows the lack of agreement taking place in the Filipino gov. & military, & apparently have contradicted their selves as they keep trying to pin blame the NPA with the destruction of PCOS machines & claiming they're trying to disrupt the election campaign taking place over there. This is nothing more than a propaganda campaign against the NPA.
05/11/2010 | 10:02 PM
Army unit now doubts ‘NPA role’ in Iloilo PCOS burning
The military tentatively "cleared" the communist-led New People's Army (NPA) of involvement in the burning of precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines in Iloilo province the weekend before the May 10 elections.
A local Army unit who interviewed residents of the village contradicted the claims of two policemen on what caused the fire, Iloilo-based The News Today reported Tuesday.
Five PCOS machines were razed in the Home Economics building of Caduldulan Elementary School in Miag-ao, Iloilo last Saturday.
The 82nd Infantry Battalion, in its report to the military's Task Force HOPE, said residents saw no armed group in the area or heard any explosion when the incident happened.
It contrasted with the allegation of the Miag-ao Police Station, which claimed 15 armed rebels led by Armando "Allan/Kamlon" Sabares were behind the incident.
PO2 Placido Nacis and PO1 Cenon Elicanal, the police officers detailed at the JSCC-Security Assistance Desk, claimed they were fetching water at a nearby well when they saw smoke coming from the HE building.
They added they saw armed men firing their guns, and withdrew and reported the incident to the Miag-ao Police Station.
But village captain Romeo Forclarans said he and other residents saw the two policemen eating some 200 meters from the HE building.
After seeing the smoke, residents rushed to the area to put out the fire, but the building was locked, preventing them from retrieving the PCOS machines.
Investigation also showed residents in the area suspected the fire stemmed from an electrical short circuit in the kitchen.
The burned PCOS machines were to be used for Cabalaunan, Caduldulan, Matalngon, Onop and To-ong villages.
Provincial Election Supervisor Atty. Elizabeth Doronila immediately sent PCOS machines to replace the burnt ones.
Meanwhile, PNP Regional Director Chief Supt. Isagani Cuevas had announced on May 9 that they will create a special investigation task group to look into the incident.
The group will have Chief Insp. Fernando Salvatierra, provincial officer of the Iloilo Criminal Investigation and Detection Team; Supt. Edgardo Lenizo; Lt. Col. Jorge Joel Lalaquil of the Army’s 82nd IB; and Insp. Ferdinand Limbungan of the Miag-ao Police Station, as members.
“Pending the result of the investigation, we maintained that the incident was perpetrated by armed rebels," Cuevas added.
Nacis and Elicanal were also placed on probe.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/190730/a...o-pcos-burning
NPA rebs abduct 4 soldiers in ComVal
By Frinston Lim
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 07:23:00 05/13/2010
Filed Under: Guerrilla activities, Abduction
TAGUM CITY--Communist New People’s Army rebels struck anew in Compostela Valley province, abducting on Wednesday four government troops at a birthday party.
Capt. Emmanuel Garcia, 10th Infantry Division public affairs officer, said the kidnapping happened in Sawangan village in Mawab town.
He identified the seized troopers as Corporals Marcial Bagawan, Ariel Asumo, Eduardo Alcala and militiaman Victor Pitogo.
The government troops were at Bagawan’s house for his three-year old son’s birthday when gunmen believed to be members of the NPA’s Front 27 swooped down and held them at gunpoint.
“According to witnesses, the rebels forcibly herded the victims to a black van before speeding off toward the direction of Sangab village, also in Compostela Valley,” Garcia said, adding that Bagawan’s wife, Jenny, tearfully pleaded to the rebels not to take her husband away but to no avail.
The military suspects Bagawan’s abductors are the same group of rebels, which on Tuesday ambushed troops escorting election officials in the transport of election paraphernalia in nearby Maragusan town, which resulted in the death of five persons and the wounding of 12 others.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakin...iers-in-ComVal
Good idea TVM. Keep them coming :-)
I ended up finding this on the NPA's official website & thought people would like to hear it. It's the Filipino version of the Internationale by the NPA:
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/...rnationale.mp3
Cool thread, was thinking of starting one similar.. Is it for the Fillipino situation in general, or just the military actions of NPA? Would it be good to post things from CPP, NDFP and other revolutionary forces?
Formerly zenga zenga !
You should name the thread "News from the Philippine revolution" or something, since, as scarletghoul said, there are other revolutionary and progressive national liberation forces operation in the Philippines united with the NPA, such as the MILF (ha-ha, it's Moro Islamic Liberation Front actually).
Alright, thanks for the tips, Comrades. Can any moderator change the name of this thread to "News from the Philippine Revolution"?
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. -George Jackson
There is no such thing as an innocent bystander. -Abbie Hoffman
People will confront incoming Aquino regime with pressing demands
Communist Party of the Philippines
May 13, 2010
With the reactionary elections coming to a close, it now appears that the Philippine neocolonial state will be headed next by Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III.
Once Aquino assumes power on June 30, the Filipino people are intent on immediately confronting his presidency with the most pressing issues arising from the basic political and socio-economic problems they have been suffering under the prevailing rotten semi-colonial and semifeudal system.
The Number One immediate demand of the Filipino people is the prosecution and punishment of Gloria Arroyo and her ilk for all the crimes they have committed while in power.
They demand justice for numerous crimes of plunder including the ZTE national broadband network deal, the IMPSA deal, the Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard scam, the Fertilizer Fund scam, the Swine Fund scam, and several other cases of gross plunder.
They demand redress of grievances and remuneration for the numerous crimes against humanity and violations of human rights in the conduct of the US-Arroyo regime's Oplan Bantay Laya 1 and 2. Justice is demanded by human rights advocates and the families, friends and supporters of more than a thousand victims of extrajudicial killings, thousands more illegally arrested, tortured and detained, abducted and involuntarily disappeared, and millions of victims of forced evacuation, looting and razing of their homes and farms by the fascist troops under her command.
Any vacillation on Aquino's part to pursue, prosecute, arrest and punish Arroyo and her ilk will be roundly rejected by the people.
There remains the threat of Arroyo's power perpetuation schemes through the backdoor of Congress by seizing the Speakership, weakening the executive branch, pursuing charter change and eventually repositioning herself as Prime Minister. Arroyo will be bankrolling efforts to seize the Speakership with billions of pesos accumulated through plunder. She will rely on the loyalty of key officials in the military, especially of newly appointed Chief of Staff Gen. Delfin Bangit and her other loyal generals at the top of the AFP, as well as her majority of loyalists in the Supreme Court, including the incoming Chief Justice Renato Corona, whom she has just appointed.
Aquino's impending assumption of the presidency significantly facilitates the return to power of the Aquino-Cojuangco haciendero clan. His presidency will be highlighted by the demand of the restive peasantry for genuine land reform, including the scrapping of the fake stock distribution option, the immediate distribution to the tillers of their family's vast landholdings, and the dispensation of justice to the victims of the Hacienda Luisita Massacre.
Given the Aquino-Cojuangco clan's insistence on holding on to Hacienda Luisita and Aquino's own evasiveness regarding the issue of genuine land reform, his presidency will be marked by a nationwide upsurge of the revolutionary struggle for genuine land reform and the emancipation of the peasantry from feudal bondage.
Aquino and the clique of US-led foreign chambers of commerce, big landlords, big compradors, the Aquino-Cojuangco clan and pseudo-reformists behind him are bearers of neocolonial, feudal and elitist policies.
In the face of all this, the Filipino people are determined to confront the new presidency with pressing demands for more significant socio-economic reforms. They demand an end to, and the reversal of, the IMF-dictated neoliberal policies obsequiously implemented by the US-Arroyo regime and other regimes before it. They demand a stop to opening up vast tracts of the nation's agricultural land and natural resources to the gross plunder and wanton destruction of imperialist, big comprador and big bureaucrat capitalist corporations.
They demand the establishment of real national industries instead of export processing zones, sweat shops and outsourcing centers. They demand an end to the labor-export policy, the creation of solid instead of casual and contractual domestic jobs, and the guarantee of just and sufficient wage increases to meet the highly increased costs of living. The continuing and worsening international and domestic crises are pushing the Filipino toiling masses and impoverished people to tread the path of militant struggle.
Aquino will be confronted as well with the people's patriotic demand to put an end to the permanent presence of US military troops in the Philippines and an end to the unequal military treaties with the US superpower. Patriotic forces and the people demand an end to the intervention of US troops and advisers in the country's internal military affairs, including the US military's role in designing and planning the AFP's campaigns of suppression against the anti-imperialist, progressive and democratic forces.
US imperialism maintains its interest in keeping the ruling political system and neocolonial state stabilized and, thus, securing the long-term economic, political and military interests of the US in the Philippines. US imperialism thus pushed hard on Arroyo and rivals among the ruling classes to make the just concluded reactionary elections appear more orderly and conclusive than previous ones in the hope of mitigating the contradictions among the rival factions of the reactionary ruling classes.
The deepening economic crisis, the diminishing state resources for sharing the spoils of power and the continuing tightness of their power struggles, however, continue to further intensify the contradictions and violence among the rival reactionary factions. The crisis of the ruling political system will further deepen and escalate as Aquino tries to assume power while Arroyo continues to scheme her way to perpetuate herself in power and evade prosecution and punishment.
The puppet reactionary state will continue to be rocked by contradictions among the ruling classes and and by the intensification of the people's struggles.
The revolutionary forces are facing an excellent opportunity to step up the revolutionary struggle. They are determined to pursue the path of people's war to advance the national and democratic aspirations of the Filipino people.
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